look at nature

See, I think there's a plan.

There's a design
for each and every one of us.

You look at nature.

Bird flies somewhere, picks up a seed,
shits the seed out, plant grows.

Bird's got a job,
shit's got a job, seed's got a job.

And you've got a job.

- cold mountain (2003)

Thánatos

Ο θάνατος τριγυρνάει το νου μου σήμερα,
κι είμαι σαν τον αρρωστο που ξαναβρίσκει την υγειά του,
σα να σηκώθηκα μετά από μεγάλη αρρώστια.
Ο θάνατος τριγυρνάει το νου μου σήμερα,
και μοιάζει με την ευωδιά που χύνουν τα λουλούδια
κι είναι σα να κάθουμαι απάνεμα μέσα στην καταιγίδα.
Ο θάνατος τριγυρνάει το νου μου σήμερα,
και μοιάζει με τη λαχτάρα του άνθρώπου για το σπίτι του,
ύστερα από πολλά πολλά χρόνια αιχμαλωσία. 

- Νικος Καζαντζάκης, Αδελφοφάδες, κεφ. η'

if you really understand your problem, don't worry about design

You don't ever have to worry about beauty or pretty because if you really understand your problem, if you solve it correctly, so life really goes on - that is regeneration of life -  and you do it economically,  so economically, it is realizable, it always comes out beautiful.

That's why rose is beautiful.

- The World of Buckminster Fuller (1974)

modern times

That's the joy of our way of life.
We use only what we don't need.
We do only what is not necessary.

- Barbary House, Kung Fu (1974)

soul mates

When you know who you are,
you are enlightened.
When you know who I am,
you are a master.
When I get to know who I am
and to know who you are,
we are soul mates.

- pantopia

the last trial

- Do not look in her eye. Ikran is not horse. Once shahaylu is made, ikran will fly with only one hunter in the whole life. To become taronyu, hunter, you must choose your own ikran and he must choose you.
- When?
- When you are ready.
...

You are ready.

Learning to ride an ikran, we call them banshees, is the test every young hunter has to pass. But to do that, you gotta go where the banshees are.

- Now what?
- Jakesully will go first.
- Now you choose your ikran. This you must feel inside. If he also chooses you, move quick like I showed. You will have one chance, Jake.
- How will I know if he chooses me?
- He will try to kill you.
- Outstanding.

Let's dance!

- Make the bond!

- Yeah, that's right. You're mine. Huh?

- First flight seals the bond. You cannot wait. Think, "Fly!"

...
The Na'vi say that every person is born twice.
The second time is when you earn your place among The People forever.
Come.

You are Omaticaya now. You may make your bow from the wood of Hometree.
And you may choose a woman. We have many fine women. Ninat is the best singer.
- But I don't want Ninat.
- Beyral is a good hunter.
- Yeah, she is a good hunter.
   I've already chosen. But this woman must also choose me.
- She already has. I am with you now, Jake. We are mated for life.


- Avatar (2009)

the nature of evil

- Master.
- I am here.
- I looked deep into myself and I saw something that frightened me.
- What did you see, grasshopper?
- I saw dark and fearful shadows in motion.
- Shadows that shunned the light. Did you put a name to these shadows?
- I called them 'evil'.
- And what is the nature of evil?
- I do not know.

- Do you sometimes feel love, grasshopper? And joy?
Do you sometimes feel pride in what you have accomplished?
- Often, master.
- And do you sometimes feel good?
- I try.
- But the threads that make up our human nature are two-ended.
There is no capacity for feeling pride without an equal capacity for feeling shame.
One cannot feel joy unless one can also feel despair.
We have no capacity for good without an equal capacity for evil.

- Must we not then fear evil?
- Shall we fear our own humanity?

- Must we not fight evil?
- Who can defeat himself? For what is evil, but the self seeking to fulfill its own secret needs.
All that is necessary is that we face it and choose.


- kung fu - the nature of evil (1973)